Editorial policy
What gets indexed, and what does not
The corpus holds what the Church has taught. This layer holds who is arguing about what it means. Everything here is described and linked. Nothing here is ever quoted as teaching, and nothing here speaks for the Church, including the people who work for it.
What gets in
A person, institute, or article is indexed when it meets all four.
Sustained work, not a mention
A body of argument about artificial intelligence and the human person. One opinion piece does not qualify. A book, a run of papers, a named program, or a formal role does.
Locatable
A stable public link that resolves: a university profile, an institutional page, a published work. If we cannot link it, we cannot index it.
Engages the tradition
Either working inside Catholic thought, or seriously engaging it from outside. A generic AI ethics researcher who has never touched the tradition does not belong here.
Attributable position
We can state what they actually argue in a sentence or two and point at where they argued it. If we cannot summarise it without inventing it, it waits.
What stays out
Anonymous or pseudonymous commentary
No exceptions. Attribution is the whole product.
Content that only restates a document
A summary of Antiqua et Nova is not commentary. The corpus already holds the document.
Devotional material that makes no argument about technology
Worthy, and not what this register is for.
Marketing
A company post about a Catholic AI product is an advertisement. The product may still earn an entry on its own merits. The post does not.
Private lives
We index published positions and public roles. Nothing else.
Anything we cannot verify
If a claim about a role or affiliation does not check out against a primary source, the entry does not ship. Two of our own starting assumptions failed this test and were cut before launch.
What we disclose
Conflicts appear on the entry itself. If someone directs AI strategy at a frontier lab and also runs a Catholic institute, both facts sit in the same paragraph and the reader weighs them.
Contributors who are not Catholic are marked as such, in their own section, so nobody mistakes an outside interlocutor for a voice of the tradition.
Where we could not confirm something, the entry says so rather than rounding up.
Indexing is not endorsement
The register includes people who think this site should not exist. That is deliberate. A register that only held people we agreed with would be a reading list, and a dishonest one.
Corrections
Errors get fixed on the page, promptly, with the correction visible rather than quietly overwritten. If we have mischaracterised your position, tell us and we will use your words.
Think we have missed someone? Suggest an addition. Every submission is reviewed by hand. Nothing publishes automatically.